international peace envoy refined his push for a truce in syria with a new diplomatic person seeking to end the conflict that's destroying the war weary country. battle of the blacklist the human rights riot between the u.s. and russia results in sanctions and an adoption ban evoking sensitive cold war memories. of. the rand rolled out the big guns for new exercises in the vital all route in the strait of hormuz saying it wants to show it can defend itself while pressure piles up over its nuclear program. plus the pricey paris christmas lights of wire the crowds but for millions of french even poverty there are dark days

ahead. hello welcome you're watching r.t. live from moscow with me and. looking to rejuvenate the u.n. space plan for syria international envoy lakhdar brahimi is visiting moscow after american talks in the middle east the push for a truce comes as the war reaches fever pitch with terrorist attacks and street battles taking a heavy toll on the syrian people are going off as the story. while they are breaking news coming to moscow after meeting with president assad earlier this week in damascus very little details have been released about its outcome but brahimi himself has been saying that he had a positive feeling and good things were happening there was speculation that they

were discussing a peaceful transition of power involving the creation of a transitional government which could include both sides on the guards looked. with the u.n. backed peace plan a russia's chief diplomat or also earlier this week met with senior syrian diplomats in moscow behind closed doors. it's most likely that they discuss the same concept hopefully will be able to find out more details after meets with brahimi in moscow on saturday it's unclear whether the syrian opposition will agree to take part in any transitional government with syria and after or uses they've been calling strictly for us not step down to the opposition's leader rejecting an invitation to come to moscow saying that no negotiations are possible with the syrian authorities even with russia mediating meanwhile the violence in syria continues asco waiting there have been more terrorist attacks also the rebels have been targeting military airstrips government forces have also been replying with

more shelling. meanwhile are sectarian cracks in iraq are leading to a surge in violence across the country the sunni's who used to hold power lines say they are second class citizens in their own nation and they want something done about it as we report shortly plus public versus fornications later this hour artie's end of year series features the events which got russians more fired up over their government. iran has entered a new phase in its naval war games in the strait of hormuz which is a vital oil shipping route he exercises involves warships submarines and jet fighters and aims to show tehran can maintain security in the region iran earlier said it. brought the strait effectively shutting off a fifth of world oil trade if it is attacked iran is feeling the pressure from the west and the u.s. and its allies pile on the sanctions over its nuclear program separate puharich is a writer and global diplomacy specialist she says iran only wants to show it is

capable of protecting its borders. for the past thirty two years all war where this is the united states is waged a corporate war against iran so you one has been preparing itself and demonstrating its to defend itself i don't believe that you or i would ever take action if we see more mabel military exercises right now it's because the media is focusing on iran whereas. earlier this month there was operation lucky mariner with twenty seven countries participating. although a lot of them were of service things and they were all the way in the persian gulf in iran as territory in the media was silent but when you run demonstrates its readiness to defend its sovereignty and its national interest then there is the media focus on you on. new year's resolutions are known for being ambitious and

short lived so should we just give ourselves a break. pain meds are ways away. looking forward to the real use the cure. for more promises we all struggle to keep join us in new york the city that really knows how to handle the new year. moscow's ban on the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens will come into effect on new year's day the bill containing the measure was signed into law by president putin on friday the legislation also includes travel and financial sanctions for certain americans as well as further restrictions for noncommercial organizations working inside russia but law is in retaliation for washington's blacklist of russian officials which it links to the death of lawyer sergei magnitsky in two thousand and nine russian studies and history professor stephen f. cohen from new york and princeton university says he never says he's never held any illusions about the two countries relations. there's an old russian saying we're

friends are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and in washington when they passed the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstanding politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they have that they feel all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is advancing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's internal politics most recently

the street demonstrations this is the same policy that began twenty years ago with the soviet union the fundamental american policy toward russia has not changed so it's ridiculous to call obama soft on moscow i mean just because two leaders get together as they always do and say we are friends it doesn't mean anything in reality yours is that the partnership we need between washington and moscow to make the world safer for all of us has not existed since the soviet union ended and we may be farther from it today today as a result partially of this orphanage then we have been in twenty years. now forget anonymity there is one place you need to use the internet and that china where new rules insist everywhere buza must use their real name online we report on that at r.t. dot com plus the survey that says christmas for christians is no longer about the birth of jesus and they are not to shrug and santa either.

for most people this week's festivities have meant a time for family decoration and the once a year spirit of goodwill in the air so spare a thought for those who have little to cheer such is the eleven million french people living in poverty alexia ski reports from the capital and whether the bright lights are leaving too many citizens in the dark. it is beyond any doubt that in the daytime paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world but after dark the french capital lives up to its other name the city of lights. many parisians regard the launch of the christmas elimination as one of the most important events of any year. this year in central paris alone on the famous johnson is it installing christmas lights wasn't cheap christmas elimination because they're on a one million euros it shop on the shelves it is a is contributing to the christmas lighting depending on the number of trees they

have in front of their of their shop eighty percent money money from the day from the shops of the shows it easy for twenty percent this money of the city hall but the budget has gone up by a third across the whole country in a year where the average person has struggled financially the authorities say they're splashing out the extra millions to help people forget how little they have . but there is crisis there is financial difficulty people have less money to spend so we have to create a festive atmosphere to give them back the will to buy and celebrate it's clear that you're in crises in developed countries people tend to economize and spend less money so it's important to avoid this negative spiral of the economy under courage people to go ahead and spend a bit. but what if you have nothing to spend françoise cares little about how her city looks or what the biggest christmas sale heats are for her the whole day is

all about bringing her terminally ill daughter to numerous charity events over the festive period. at the gym and my daughter has lever cancer her medication is being paid by social security but i have to pay the doctor out of my own pocket we are poor and i cannot afford that it's unacceptable they spend so much money on beauty well we are neglected. there were hundreds like fronts was that this charity event a recent poll concerning poverty in france produced some shocking figures. we wanted to ask the french if they felt poor folk they were heading that way only eleven percent of the french consider themselves being below the poverty line but thirty seven percent say they feel they are becoming poor the french feel that their country is slipping into decadence and social stratification is taking place . christmas is many things to many people some of the atmosphere or make you

healthy you wrote for others it's about finding a means of survival regardless of the financial state although that next year will be better than the previous and who knows maybe those in peril now may join those enjoying the spectacular eliminations come next christmas looks the rush of ski reporting from paris. there is a man who lets no one off the hook for cultivating the gap between rich and poor his was coming up later twelve thirty pm g.m.t. . stranger to exploitation of colonisation they've been ignored and they have developed some interesting products in the telecommunications space kenyan phone market is leapfrog over the traditional phone market but again once it hits critical mass it's going to be colonized by the foreigners as usual asia how about the asian financial crisis of one nine hundred ninety eight there was a crisis cooked up on wall street the city of london export it to asia and blow up

that economy now they're buying dollars to protect themselves against continued marauding by the opium dealing the british people who don't arrive with opium but went to the residence products for the same effect get a junk securities. watch that program later in the day and i'll be back in a few minutes time with more knees. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist skull finding

a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist were to kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the cia p.

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and i welcome back a period of political challenges and they say of public opinion that is high russians might possibly describe the ad getting able to day in our series looking at what happened in two thousand and twelve we focus on the biggest of political and in russia. presidential election twenty two miles we had three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night there's a great night was nick going over my shoulder the real color was right behind us was in it but but one point when putin came out of so many like crowds to a costume of the thousands and thousands of people but also celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that

election and protest rallies it never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive coldest rallies in moscow on the square that it really fifty for the first time when i saw the crowd rocking it see the court right next to ours another station and i realized how us it was people really turned uncontrollable in the manner with seconds and health club things just as easily chaos really quickly of people trying to get their political point across in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be a bag on your head and do some rugby down sing in a cathedral the one thing that was important to get across when we were covering it is that people's political flavors in this country the fact was that what they did was deeply offensive to a huge number of people not something that the courts had to consider when they were looking at the procedure. case when i made a press release about our interview with president putin the first that he's ever given after he's third inauguration we received dozens and dozens of calls from

international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about it was the right case nothing was out of this in fact the more challenging it is the more gauging the conversation would be of course not a big list in my head i wanted to hear about his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the punishment the push the right pump was indeed with hindsight maybe to have the that's an interesting comment to make about that and what he thought about the russian opposition movement one of our big stories of the year the streets are available for protest artist for sure and i think it's good that people are conscious about politics well politics is not a big deal among most people here in this country would want to be doing the change let only be good for society and i think the the authorities reacted with relatively well. iraq has seen its largest protests in a week of anti-government demonstrations this tens of thousands gathered to demand

more rights sunni muslims had controlled iraq until the fall of saddam hussein ten years ago they now accuse the sheer authorities of refusing to share power and being a part of neighboring around the latest protests are seen as the tip of the iceberg in a sectarian conflict with tension leading to some of the worst falling since the iraq war right your are there is an iraqi american progress thinks the u.s. invasion played a big part in sowing the seeds of today's trouble. unfortunately you're arc is another example of. u.s. interventions decades after the u.s. invaded the country and destroyed it and promised everyone on the ward and in iraq that it will build function and democracy what everyone will be happy living in peace and prosperity became one of the wards places to live. on earth the country is completely destroyed the society has been destroyed the infrastructure has been

this destroyed five million people have been displaced and million people were killed and there is till this day in two thousand and twelve we still have very fragile political system that the iraqis view as. a very dysfunctional one so unfortunately it's another example of the failure of installing a governance system by u.s. or nato invasions. the world is still none the wiser as to whether america can wrestle a solution to its imminent fiscal cliff which could have far reaching ramifications president obama has charged democratic and republican senate leaders with finding a compromise to the budget impasse raft of tax hikes and social spending cuts come into force automatically on new year's day if the two political parties fail to find a way forward obama says he will call a vote in congress to stop the tax rises if they can't work it and. the twenty

three year old victim of an of riffing gang rape on a bus that triggered violent protests in india has died in a singapore hospital in new delhi gatherings of more than five people have been banned in many parts of the city but this peaceful fifteen was allowed to go ahead the authorities have also closed metro stations and stock cars from accessing some main roads in preparation for possible protests is. now we are coming up too fast to that night of fun fireworks and festivities the first few of us will also be making some resolutions for twenty thirteen and rory half an ist has been hearing some of the wishful thinking in new york. it's that time of year again we all make resolutions for the new year so what's

your best this week let's talk about bad same as always so it was a rule looking forward to the mega millions that say you're going to win the lottery and you're going to lose weight and neither of these things are going to happen exactly good just be. kinder gentler. more giving how do you do that new york city i live in cincinnati i'd be. in reading about i want to eat song going to do it this time and why didn't you eat better and twenty twelve no i read a book about fasting fasting for two days a week so that's what i'm going to do get that's not going to work here's resolution eat less muffins you know. to take care of myself better eat less muffin no muffins are great push against it use the gym that's what it usually is but it's nice to last for a while. you're going to make the same one that you break and you think

a lot of people do that yeah i think so not to be so hard on myself joy life that's a good one it's kind of like the anti resolution more like i'm just going to relax a little but. that's probably when you can stick to your but why don't you start now because i crave cigarettes a lot you still have them so you're going to smoke yeah and once you don't have any more throughout a current of cigarettes you're going to smoke your brains out until january first yeah and so january first if you do decide to make a new year's resolution for two thousand and thirteen the bottom line is you're probably not going to keep it so why don't you just resolve to try to be a better you every day of the year happy new year. and we head to washington d.c. off to the bright following this is catholic.

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm laurin the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday december twenty first two thousand and twelve today is a good time to reflect on this part. of the twenty first this year. that will be today and the world didn't end i think it's fair to say so we will reflect on what may lie ahead in the coming new year or reflect on this year in economic trends dave column is a cornell chemistry professor but he's known in finance for his annual year in review which is out today and he is here in studio to talk about it plus you wes stocks drop as house republicans cancel a vote on the fiscal cliff political disarray stock markets those were how the headlines read today when i came into work what is this just white noise we'll talk

about signs of a broken market that go far beyond the day to day news portably moving them plus from market scandals to our very own we'll break down what you loved and hated this week in viewer feedback let's get to today's capital account. well the world didn't end today some argue the mayan calendar predicted but this millennial error can at least teach us a thing or two about the pitfalls of prediction something fitting given the nature of financial forecasts and also fitting as our guest references it in a small way in his two thousand and twelve year in review he writes this review

every december and this year it covers the gamut from broken markets to broke students saddled with more debt than those charging up their credit cards it's out today you can read it chris martin sins website which is peak prosperity dot com and you can hear him talk about it now on our show because david column is here he's the betty are miller professor of chemistry at cornell university and author of the year in review out for two thousand and twelve today so first thanks for being on the show it's my pleasure second let's talk about why you as an organic chemistry professor are known for writing a financial economic investment year in review that's out today why does anybody care about your views on on this subject. it's an excellent question actually. i'm pretty good at distilling complexity down to simplicity so i think a weed whacker to these complex markets we've been it's a hobby of mine. and it didn't.